According to the U.S. Census the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
After every major conflict - World War I World War II Korea Vietnam the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
When human beings live together conflict is inevitable. War is not.
The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war just as I opposed the Vietnam War because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.